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Monday, December 19, 2011

AZMEX SPECIAL 19-12-11

AZMEX SPECIAL 19 DEC 2011

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In early 2008 exploded into the Sinaloa cartel conflict largest on record, driven by capturing the Mochomo Alfredo Beltran Leyva. The explosion brought nightmarish consequences to the bosom of the most powerful criminal organization Mexico, causing an escalation of death as never before seen in the areas of organized crime anywhere in the world.

Along with this internal war, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and Ismael Zambada competed on May one of the most important places for the smuggling of drugs to the criminal group then most violent and bloody all over the country: the Juarez cartel.

The Juarez was a war that claimed the lives becoming more and more people and where people of the Viceroy Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, seemed to have every chance of winning, since they controlled the police and political spheres of the city and Chihuahua, Patricia Gonzalez even the prosecutor repeatedly been accused of protecting the Juarez cartel and its armed wing, La Linea.

Chapo was then that the mechanism by which it sought to kill their enemies in a way that does not even have to put your hands. The formula, which even the most brilliant of his enemies had conceived, was to involve the United States Government for them to take over their opponents. And it was.

With initiative and a display that would have envied the president Felipe Calderon, Chapo authorized his people to establish communication with a federal agency of that country, in this case the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE acronym in English) , to reveal information about their enemies, as thus would the U.S. government who would be responsible to go for them. In plain terms, the Yankees would be the armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel. The response was immediate.

Rivers of blood

The alliance worked for both parties, except for citizenship, which was in the crossfire and began to fall victim to an endless war between the Sinaloa cartel and its allies of ICE, against the Juarez cartel.

The mass killings were swift and ejecusiones document reached more than twenty people in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and communities in the highlands and Creel, who was then known as a tourist destination rather than a war zone.

"It's become a hell, and we see for after all," said Father Javier Avila Ríodoce Aguirre, pastor of the church in Creel, where the November 15, 2008, a command executed 13 people who apparently worked for the Juarez cartel.

The numbers were gradually shooting: 2 000 400 executions in 2008, some 2 000 944 deaths in 2009. Indeed, these two years coincided with the time when the United States served as the armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel. He also agreed that escalating operating death with Fast and Furious, directed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Snuff (ATF), which allowed the entry of thousands of weapons into Mexico, and whose recipients were people of Chapo Guzman.

That is, the U.S. not only acted as the working arm of the Sinaloa cartel against its enemies, but also armed to the teeth and somehow agreed not to touch it.

The narcobanners

The attacks only a cartel by the governments of Mexico and the United States were so obvious that the group had no other Viceroy conclude that the Mexican government protected the Chapo.

It was then that narcobanners launched a campaign in Ciudad Juarez and different parts of the republic that required the president to attack all the cartels equally and not only protect one of them: the Sinaloa cartel.

Little or nothing was known then that the people of Chapo Guzman was working with U.S. agencies, who were passing information about his enemies.

But not only demanded narcobanners equity, people also accused of murdering Chapo "innocent people" in Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Mexico, where he also began to intensify the levels of violence after the U.S. agreed with the cartel Sinaloa.

According to data from the PGJE the state of Sinaloa, in 2008 the number of violent deaths was 166 thousand, while 2009 were 252 thousand. Those numbers, as statistics of Chihuahua, meant records in both states. Coincidentally, this occurred when starting the pact between the Sinaloa and the U.S..

Debacle of a covenant

Possibly the pact would have continued indefinitely, but the March 19, 2009, in an exclusive area of ​​Mexico City, elements of the Mexican army arrested Vicente Zambada Niebla, then considered one of the main leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.

The arrest of Vicentillo also meant an eventual break between the United States Government and the Sinaloa cartel, since Zambada Niebla was the first high-profile drug dealer admits to being a DEA informant, allegedly in exchange for immunity and freedom for the transfer of drugs from Mexico to the United States.

From that moment everything changed and the U.S. responded that they had never offered immunity to the son of Mayo Zambada. However, the defense emphasized that Zambada Niebla was no evidence in the possession of the prosecution that were necessary for the Vicentillo receive a fair trial, otherwise it might be possible to go free if the judge Ruben Castillo determined that "it was committing an injustice to him. "

According to the Vicentillo, dealings between the Sinaloa cartel and the United States dating from before 2004, when Loya Humberto Castro, chief of Chapo, enabling it to provide information on the enemies of freedom Chapo in exchange for free racking of drugs from Mexico to the United States.

In March 2010, another Sinaloa cartel informant, Jesus Manuel Fierro Mendez, admitted in federal court in El Paso Texas, have been "spokesman" of the Chapo Guzman, who often had telephone conversations and meetings with ICE agents .

In all cases, outside Loya Castro, fog or Fierro Zambada Mendez, the Sinaloa cartel was touched by the authorities of Mexico or the United States. Or at least that's what the testimony given point.

In the case of Zambada Niebla, explain the motions presented by the prosecution, was the Mayo Zambada who have authorized his son to meet with DEA ​​agents because their intention was to move away from drug trafficking. But being arrested Vicentillo, his legal team uncovered a cesspool of corruption and favoritism, which included a formula for the DEA to take the money confiscated from drug cartels and bring it back to Mexico where he would wash through its operating .

A spokesman Joaquin Chapo Guzman made a pact with ICE

Betrayal by impunity

Kennis and Jason Andrew McGahan *

Loya Humberto Castro, Joaquin advisor Chapo Guzman and Vicente Zambada Niebla, the son of Ismael Zambada May, are not the only senior members of the Sinaloa cartel who served as liaison between the criminal organization and U.S. agencies.

In March 2010, Jesus Manuel Fierro Mendez, a member of the Sinaloa cartel and ex-captain of the police in Ciudad Juarez, El Paso testified that he had been "spokesman" of the Chapo Guzman in numerous telephone conversations and some meetings with U.S. officials Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE acronym in English).

"There were two of us who were, say, as the voice-Fierro said Mendez. We spent all the information. But we received this information, obviously, higher levels. " He explained also that Chapo Guzman had allowed to meet with ICE and report the activities of enemy cartels.

- Have you ever asked ICE about the veneers? He was asked during his testimony in court.She was not allowed and never asked me.

Until the day he was arrested, Fierro Mendez saved in your cell phone number of an ICE agent that he knew only as Roger.

Fierro Mendez was arrested by the DEA on October 10, 2008 at his home in Ciudad Juarez. After being extradited to Indianapolis, Indiana to face charges of trafficking cocaine, sealed an agreement with the Federal United States. He avoided being sentenced to 27 years in prison in exchange for testifying against former associates of the Sinaloa cartel, Manuel Chavez and Fernando Betancourt Ontiveros Arambula.

Process testimony obtained a copy of Iron Mendez surrendered March 4, 2010 before the Court Western District of Texas. That day appeared as a witness by the Government of the United States. Unless otherwise indicated, U.S. Attorney Russell D. Leachman is the interlocutor in the extracts from the transcript of the Court cited in the text.

IN THE "PAYROLL"

Five years before appearing as a witness in El Paso, Fierro was a corrupt police captain in Ciudad Juarez. According to the DEA said the day he was sentenced, "while supervising the transport and distribution of cocaine, also served as an officer of Puma Unit in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Puma Unit is a narcotics task force that operates within the Juárez Police. "

Fierro, whose nickname in the drug underworld of Juarez Puma was also admitted receiving drug money while he was a police captain. In the Court repeatedly referred to those bribes as "payroll".

Q. - And when he says "the list" are you referring to the bribes to the police?A. - It is not a bribe. It is a payment for a specific job. Is an amount that is paid monthly to the Police to do the job they want.

Q - Okay. What is expected of the police once it is in "the list" as you say?A. - I do or not do what interests the drug traffickers.

Q. - And just for the ladies and gentlemen here understand what this means, if you are a police officer in Mexico, and say that is not on "the list", what would happen to a person within the corporation police ?A. - If you are not in "the list" if someone is not in "the list", that person still must obey orders given. Because if you do not obey orders, that person would be killed.

The Sinaloa cartel recruited Mendez Fierro who had resigned by then- Police to increase their influence with local police and with their old friends the Mexican Army. The fragile alliance of Chapo Guzman with the Juarez cartel, known as The Federation was breaking. In anticipation of the final rupture, the Chapo sent high-level emissaries to secure local support of men like Fierro Mendez, to launch a surprise military offensive against his former partner.

Q. - How did you meet Fernando Arambula?R. - In late 2007 I was asked to meet with him to develop some strategies for drug trafficking.

Q. - Who asked you meet him?R. - Mayito.

Q. - And when he says Mayito, do you know with other names?R. - M10 and Mario Nunez.

Q. - And you met with Mr. Arambula and Mario Núñez Mayito?A. - Yes.

Q. - And when did the first of these meetings?R. - I first met Mayito, probably in October 2007. And in November of 2007 I met with Fernando.

Q. - And was anyone else in these meetings?A. - Yes.

Q. - Who else?A. - There were many meetings, and each had different people. In the first one I attended was the commander Fernando Loya, was the M10, M11 his brother, Flais, Cuba, etc. I do not remember.

Q. - And what was the purpose of these meetings?A. - At that time began to show a confrontation over the place and the intention was to make arrangements to keep that place.

Q. - When speaking of the square keep, what you mean?R. - To have control over the city and throughout the state.

Q. - And what it means to have control of the square?R. - To be able to ... to maintain the ability to give orders over the law to federal, state and municipal governments, and have a clear field for drug trafficking can continue without problems.

Fierro Mendez testified that the main objective of the Sinaloa cartel in the short term was to eliminate the line, the faction of the Juarez cartel who claimed territorial control over the entire state of Chihuahua. He said, however, that the Chapo clarified that wherever possible he wanted to avoid a violent confrontation.

The strategy was to exhaust the last chance to hurt Line. Fierro Mendez explained in court, "the aim was to eliminate the line of any possible way out is legal or not. That is, either through the Army or providing information to ICE, this was a legal way, or braking information that came from the highest ranks of the Line. "

The prosecutor asked if the Sinaloa cartel tried to use ICE to eliminate their rivals of La Linea. "That's right," was the answer.

After he broke Federation, members of the line were previously loyal to the Juarez cartel began to pass information to the Sinaloa, Fierro said Mendez. He noted that much of the information that was aimed at the line came from former members of that organization changed their loyalties when the violence erupted. Fierro said that these individuals had a name: they were known as The New People. When pressed to define the term, said that the new people was "The People Against The Line".

Guzman Loera SENT

Fierro Mendez also said that he crossed the border to meet with ICE agents in U.S. territory. To show the jury how easy it was to Fierro contact ICE Mendez, Attorney Leachman recovered the names of two members of this agency registered with the Mexican cellular wore the day he was arrested. One of the agents working for the ICE office in Phoenix, Arizona, the other in El Paso, Texas.

Fierro Mendez contacted the ICE in April 2008, offering his services as an informant for sensitive intelligence material on the Sinaloa cartel's enemies, especially the Juarez cartel.

"Originally I was willing to work with any U.S. agency, any Federal agency, either the FBI, DEA or ICE" he explained.

Fierro Mendez and contacts ICE agreed to cooperate only in words, there was no written agreement between them, he said. "I would give them information they needed, and they corroborate information they had."

-Besides these, were there other services performed for the ICE? Asked the prosecutor.-I contacted some people who are in the business of arms trafficking replied.

Fierro Mendez notify ICE when a senior member of La Linea was arrested in Mexico with the hope that the United States prevented his prompt return to the battlefield in Juarez. He said U.S. authorities had the power to delay the release from prison of members of a cartel enemy. He also stated that the Sinaloa cartel ICE provided the information to make arrests on U.S. soil. He said, however, if the ICE carried out the arrests. He explained that he had set limits on what could be said about its agreements with ICE.

The M10 and another member of the Sinaloa cartel, Julio Porras, were those who made arrangements for Fierro Mendez could meet with ICE agents in the United States. "I do not know how they did it," he testified, "but through them I could enter the ICE without questions."

In cross-examination with Martha Eskesen, Arambula Ontiveros' attorney, Fierro Mendez explained the nature of their dealings with the ICE.

Q. - What are you looking for when he embarked on talks with ICE agents?R. - arrests were made here in America.

Q. - Well. And remember those with whom he met when he began to deal with the ICE?A. - Yes.

Q. - Who were these agents?R. - The agent that I was in charge was Roger.

Q. - And Roger was the actual name of agent or his nickname?A. - I do not know.

Q. - Well. So was the only name I had for this person?R. - The name he gave me.

Q. - Well. And there was some other agent with whom you also tried?R. - Joseph.

Q. - And you know the name of Joseph?A. - No.

Q. - Well. Were there more ICE agents with whom you have a deal?A. - Whenever there was a meeting, there were at least two ICE agents, but I do not know any of the others.

Q. - Well. And when you met at that time with them was not in custody or imprisoned ... and there was no legal problem. Right?

A - Correct.Q. - You were, and if I am using an incorrect term, tell me, 'you were on a mission to come Chapo to provide information. Right?

A. - Yes.

LOYA COMMANDER

Fierro Mendez is not the first member of the Sinaloa cartel who admits to having had regular telephone contact or meetings with U.S. law enforcement agents. Loya Humberto Castro, one of the main advisors of Chapo Guzman, maintained regular telephone contact with the agent Manuel Castanon, the DEA office in Tijuana. The agent's name Castanon was in the cell record Loya Castro.

The full name of the agent Castanon was revealed in a motion filed by U.S. prosecutors in the case of Vicentillo. The motion included a half page section titled Continuous Castro Loya communication with U.S. officials. This is a chronicle of his telephone conversations with the agent Castanon between October 2010 and August 24, 2011. Before the prosecution disclose your name in the records of the Court by the defense Castanon agent appeared as the "agent Manny"-the same way that Fierro Mendez could not provide anything more specific than "Roger" to identify your ICE contact in Phoenix.

Alvin Michaelson, a member of the defense of Vicentillo, told Judge Ruben Castillo in an open session of the Court Loya Castro has been in contact with the agent Castanon, "virtually on a daily basis for almost ten years, there are thousands of reports supporting our position, Your Excellency. He told us about e-mails, meetings, phone calls. He had to hand the phone number of Mr. Manny. "

Court proceedings in the trial on drug charges against Zambada Niebla provided U.S. officials revealed that senior members of the Sinaloa cartel information that used to smite his enemies cartels.

In a legal document, dated September 9, 2011, the U.S. Federal Bureau Loya admitted that Castro was a confidential informant record in the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English).

Zambada's legal team revealed the connection Fog Loya Castro filed a legal motion in March. The Federal United States denies, however, that the agreement with Castro Loya imply a guarantee of legal immunity for the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, as alleged in the Court Vicentillo lawyers.

The connections between Fierro Loya Mendez Castro and extend beyond a similar relationship with U.S. law enforcement. Fierro Mendez said in court that Loya saw "three four" meetings convened by the Sinaloa cartel in Mazatlan to prepare for drug shipments to Juarez. Fracture of the Federation brought a great disruption in the supply of drugs. Everlasting lieutenant, Fierro succinctly highlights the two main objectives of the meetings in Mazatlan: "One was to keep hitting the line in every way possible. The other was organized to at least be able to cross the drugs. "

* Taken from the magazine Proceso.CommentsAdd New Searchthe Carrillo Fuentes at 100navolatense (IP: 208.54.39.254) 19/12/2011 8:33:56whatever the Carrillo Fuentes following the 100 and loved if Mexico would not be as cowardly and treacherous esta.que guzman toad after being godmother along with the first .. Zambada mayate betrays the cheek and then the envy Beltran he had the beard and wacho viceroy.niworking with AFIS, PGR, DEA, ICE has been able to get the Carrillo Fuentes Juárez and less podran.los haora reforsando lane are controlled to maintain the Plaza de juarez .. . the sign of the traitors (Sinaloa) will stay with the desire we Navolato arrives at 100 with the cheeks ...